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Bhagavad Gita 1.34

आचार्याः पितरः पुत्रास्तथैव च पितामहाः।मातुलाः श्चशुराः पौत्राः श्यालाः सम्बन्धिनस्तथा॥

ācāryāḥ pitaraḥ putrāstathaiva ca pitāmahāḥ |mātulāḥ ścaśurāḥ pautrāḥ śyālāḥ sambandhinastathā ||

Teachers, fathers, sons, and grandfathers, maternal uncles, fathers-in-law, grandsons, brothers-in-law, and other relatives—

Translation by Swami Sivananda · Public domain in India (translator d. 1963)

Teachers, fathers, grandfathers, sons, grandsons, uncles, fathers-in-law, brothers-in-law, and other relatives.

Translation by Shri Purohit Swami · Public domain in India (translator d. 1941)

Our plain-language meaning of this verse is waiting for scholar review.

Edition: Common 700-verse recension. Arjuna's opening question in chapter 13, absent from that recension, is kept as 13.0.

Transliteration in IAST, generated from the Devanagari text.

Source: Sanskrit text via gita/gita (Unlicense), from the Gita Supersite, IIT Kanpur. Sanskrit text public domain.

Bhagavad Gita 1.34 · Vidya